Workshop with Keynote “By now it is only too well known,” wrote Judith N. Shklar in her first book, After Utopia, “that democracy is not inevitable, that it may be destroyed from within, and that even the most successful constitutional democracies are not the models of social perfection that the Enlightenment had dreamed about.” In her later […]
Keynote In the face of a widely diagnosed “crisis of democracy,” calls for more trust and social cohesion are commonplace. But to what extent is democracy a matter of trust? Might distrust and skepticism also have their place in democratic politics? If so, what should these attitudes be like not to undermine and even strengthen […]
Lecture & Film „Black Atlantic Cinema“ Lecture: Didi Cheeka, Vinzenz Hediger Lecture: Nollywood and the Black Atlantic. On Kenneth Gyang’s “Confusion Na Wa” (2013) Rather than wait for government support or European money Nigerian filmmakers in the 1990s started a film industry from scratch and on their own terms. Initially influenced by Brazilian soap operas Nigerian video […]
Wasser ist eine unserer wichtigsten Ressourcen für das Leben. Es ist zudem das zentrale Medium, durch das wir den Klimawandel erkennen. Mehr noch, über 90 Prozent der Katastrophenereignisse weltweit sind mit Wasser verknüpft. Verbunden mit der Übernutzung von Wasserressourcen, der ungleichen Verteilung, dem Verlust von Ökosystemleistungen sowie den damit verbundenen Gesundheitsrisiken kann es zunehmend zu […]
Symposium and Book Launch on the Book "Insurgent Cultures. World Literatures and Violence from the Global South" by Pavan Kumar Malreddy.
Lecture & Film „Black Atlantic Cinema“ Lecture: Iyabo Kwayana (New Hampshire) Lecture: Terror and the Time: A Reflection on Poetic Resistance This talk will explore the poetry of Martin Carter as a powerful source of anti-colonial resistance, particularly within the context of Guyanese social and cultural movements. As the child of Eusi Kwayana, one of the interviewees in […]
56. Römerberggespräche Zuwanderung scheint aktuell das wichtigste Problem Deutschlands zu sein. Mit dem Thema werden Wahlen gewonnen oder verloren. Die Angst vor wachsender Kriminalität, Terroranschlägen ausländischer Täter und die Alarmrufe überforderter Kommunen bilden ein Schreckensszenario, mit dem populistische Parteien das Polit-Establishment vor sich hertreiben. Wer sich heute noch zur Willkommenskultur bekennt, wer das uneingeschränkte […]
Workshop Programm: 10:15 Uhr Beginning of the Workshop; Welcome 10:30-11:30 Uhr Anacrusis 1. Über den Frieden im Krieg sprechen/Speaking peace in war – what for? (input Lothar Brock/ Hendrik Simon) Discussion in the Forum 11:30-11:45 Uhr Coffee Break 11:45-13:15 Uhr Panel 1: Deutsche Friedenstheorie/Theorizing peace in Germany 2. Blick von außen/Looking from the outside in […]
Frankfurt-Harvard Conference on surveillance and digital intermediaries. With two Keynotes by Nicole Starosielski, UC Berkeley and Nick Couldry, LSE.